béar
Irish (Donegal)
noun
Definitions
- bear mammal
- (finance) bear
Etymology
Borrowed from English bear (m, be-er, carry) derived from Middle English bere (pillowcase) derived from Old English bera derived from *berō derived from Proto-Germanic *berô (bear).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*berô
Gloss
bear
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
熊
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bearhead English
- Berengar English
- Bernard English
- abear English
- afterbear English
- antibear English
- barrel English
- bear English
- bear out English
- bear-whelp English
- bearability English
- bearable English
- bearbait English
- bearbaiting English
- bearberry English
- bearbind English
- bearcat English
- beardog English
- beardom English
- bearer English
- bearest English
- beareth English
- beargrass English
- bearheaded English
- bearherd English
- bearhound English
- bearing English
- bearish English
- bearleap English
- bearless English
- bearlike English
- bearling English
- bearly English
- bearmeal English
- bearness English
- bearproof English
- bearship English
- bearshit English
- bearskin English
- beartrap English
- bearward English
- beary English
- beer English
- bere English
- berserk English
- berth English
- birth English
- born English
- bugbear English
- carebear English
- downbear English
- forbear English
- forebear English
- forthbear English
- ice bear English
- inbear English
- minibear English
- misbear English
- moon bear English
- moonbear English
- offbear English
- outbear English
- overbear English
- owlbear English
- pedobear English
- permabear English
- pillowbeer English
- rebear English
- she-bear English
- snowbear English
- superbear English
- unbear English
- unbearability English
- underbear English
- upbear English
- werebear English
- withbear English
- beer Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerH- Proto-Indo-European
- *bernuz Proto-Germanic
- *berô Proto-Germanic
- bera Old English
- bere Old English
- bēor Old English
- bere Middle English
- bern Middle English
- béarmhargadh Irish
- béarúil Irish
- béirín Irish
- margadh Irish
- Bjarni Old Norse
- bero Old High German
- Bier Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *berō gmw-pro
- *bero Old Dutch
- bero Old Saxon
- pāār Marshallese
- *bara Old Frisian
- bera Old Frisian
- ber Volapük
- ibhere Xhosa
- pea Maori